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PANEL.

Patented July 9 N. PEYERS. PhMoLilhngmplmr. washngmn. D. (L

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HEMAN A. BENEDIOT, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE I. BEACH, OF SAME PLACE.

PANEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,618, dated .Tully 9, 1889.

Application filed June 30, 1888. l Serial No. 278,666. (No model.) y

To @ZZ whom it may concern: of any character, and the section may be put l Be it known that I, HEMAN A. BENEDICT, upon the market with the frame thicker than a citizen of the United States, residing at the body portion or wit-hout the exterior fin- Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, State ofV ishing-surface, whereby said frame or said New York, have invented certain new and use-v body portion, or both, may be planed or 0th- 55 ful Improvements in Panels or Composite erwise thinned, either along the frame or over Boards, of which the following is a specificathe entire surface of the section to adapt it tion, reference being had therein to the accomfor use in connection with grooved stiles, mulpanying drawings. lions, or other casings of structures of which 1o This 4invention relates to panels or comthe section is to become a part, or said sec- 6o posite-board sections for constructing various l tion may be put upon the market with the articles, among which maybe mentioned those exterior finishing-sheet of veneer surface apwhich are usually constructed of wood, alplied thereto. though such'class of articles does not include Other obj ects and advantagesof the invenall to which the invention may be applied. tion will appear in the following description, 65

It will be seen that the word panel is and the novel features thereof will'be paremployed herein with its usual signification. ticularly pointed out in the claims. For example, in a door, blind, trunk, desk, Referring to the drawings, Figure l repreand other cabinet constructions a wall is ususents a door constructed of sections made in zo ally made up of stiles and cross-bars constiaccordance with my invention. Figs. 2 and 7o tuting aframe-work, and this frame-work is 3 are perspectives of adesk and a box or case, provided with panels proper to complete the respectively, formed of sections embodying structure. The same features of construction Amy invention, Fig. 1i is an edge view of a occur in wainscoting and ceilings. stile for doors and other structures constructed My invention relates, primarily, to the conin accordance with my invention. Fig. 5 is 75 struction of such panels, and, secondarily, to a section on the line and Fig. 6 is an end the embodiment of the invention in stiles, elevation of the stile, looking in ,the direction cross-bars, and other frame-works, as will more of the arrow in Fig. 4. Fig.,7 is an edge view clearly hereinafter appear. y of a cross-bar or what may be designated as 3o The principal material employed in an ema cross-stile to be used in connection with 8o bodiment of the invention consists of pulp of structures which consist or are composed of any desired character, whether of paper or frame-work and panels. Fig. 8 is an edge other material. It may be the article of manuview, and Fig. 9 is a section on the line zz, of facture known as straw board]7 pulpthe panel used in the structures mentioned in b0ard,7 or any other well-known form of pathe description of 7. Fig. 1Q is a cross- 85 per-board or similar fabric. In this inven section of a composlte board which may be tion the body portion of asectionis constructed vused for any of the purposes hereinbefore of any desired material mentioned above or speciiied. Fig. 11 is a plan ofmysection with having characteristics similar to those menthe finishing-surface removed.

4o tioned, while the exterior surface or surfaces Like letters refer to like part-s in all the fig- 9o of the section may be covered with or consist ures of the drawings. of a veneer of any desired wood or of any Inconstructing a section A in accordance other material in sheet or veneer form. Anwith my invention l take a number of sheets other characteristic of the section embodying of straw-board, pulp-board, or any other dethis invention is that it is provided with a sired suitable material and compress and ce- 95 complete frame of wood and jointed to said ment the same into one compact mass, as frame in a manner which renders the connecshown at A", Fig. l0. I then completely surtion of the body portion and frame firm and round the same with a wooden frame B, havlasting. This frame may be connected with ing either a groove B, into which a tenonA 5o the body by a mortise-and-tenon connection of the body of the section is fitted, or having roo a tenon B2 entering a groove A2, formed in the body. The frame'B may be thicker than the body, as shown by dotted lines B3, Fig. l0, in order that the same may be planed down to the required thickness to fita groove formed in any structure intended to receive a panel. The tenons above mentioned are made shorter than the depth of the grooves for their reception, in order that the iinish and strength of the frame may not beimpaired. A veneer C, of any desired material, is now secured upon the body at one or both sides of the same, as desired, and upon the frame B, thus serving Yto re-enforce the joint'of the body and frame, and thus also securing the presentation of an entire exterior surface of wood. The board is now ready to receive exterior ornament-ation-as, for example, by means of molding D, arranged on one or both sides thereof, in accordance with the taste or judgment of the user, so that it can be applied to a useful purpose in constructing` desks, trunks, doors, wainscoting, window.- cases, ceilings, floors, and any other purpose to which wood, sheet metal, and other materials may be applied. My panel or section may be duplicated, so as to adapt it to many varied uses. For example, the corner-posts of a desk or of a box, trunk, or case with which panels are connected, and also the stiles and cross-bars of doors, or what is considered the equivalent, the base-board, cap-piece, and standards of wainscoting or the borders and cross-pieces of ceilings may be made of sections constructed. in accordance with my invention.

The corner-posts, stiles,rand cap and base pieces are constructed of two of my sections A, arranged side by side, but spaced or separat-ed by strips of wood E, or other suitable material, whereby a groove is formed for the reception of the edges of the panel to be used in connection therewith (see dotted lines, Fig. l) and for the reception of tenons F, projecting from the cross-bars. In this use of the section one of its surfaces may be not provided with the veneer C or other surface 1inish, and the portion of the section consisting VVof the frame B at one edge thereof is preferably extended to and formed integrally with the frame B of the adjacent panel, as shown at BSX, Fig. G, whereby the stile of standard has a solid wooden edge. The cross-bars are constructed of two sections spaced with the y strips E and provided with the tenons F, all

as shown in Fig. 7.

By the use of my section constructed and adapted as above described, either singly or in duplicate, it will be seen that almost any desired structure can be madelight, at a minimum cost, strong and serviceable, and that the structure will not be liable to split, warp, swell, or shrink, and for this reason the various stiles, cross-bars, and panels of the structure may be glued together at the jointsa method of fastening which is not and cannot .be practically adapted inl similar structures when made wholly of wood-so that the Y any edge of the section, as shown by dot-ted lines B4, Fig. lO. In this manner several sections may be connected'with each other to form close and accurate joints, thereby adapting the same for use in parquetry for lioors and other purposes.

Various othermoditlcations maybe adopted, so that a non-shrinkable, light, strong, and

comparatively inexpensive panel or section is provided, and one which will withstand exposure and wear, and possess the strength of a section made wholly of wood, and yet be free from the objections accompanying the use of that material which arise from con traction and expansion and exposure to dampness.y

It is evident that themountings, when fastened, can be molded or beveled and coped the same as in the ordinary door-wort.

l. A section consisting of pulp-board or its described equivalent completely framed with wood, the pulp and frame beingjointed together and having a surface-finishing material secured tothe section and extending over the frame to the extreme edges of the same, substantially as specified.

2. A stile, standard, or cross-bar comprising two sections, each consisting of a body of pulp-board and having a surrounding frame of wood jointed or secured thereto, said sections being fastened apart, whereby grooves Vare formed for the reception of panels, substantially as specied.

3. A cross-bar consisting of two sections, each comprising a pulp-board body having a surrounding frame B of wood-jointed thereto, tenons F, and spacing-blocks E, substantially as specified.

4. A section consisting of pulp-board or its described equivalent completely framed with wood, the pulp and frame being jointed together, and the frame being jointed at its corners by mortise-and-tenon joints, the tenons being shorter than the thickness of the mortised pieces, whereby the exterior surfaces of the latter are unimpaired, substantially as specified.

5. A structure comprising sections each consisting of two or more sheets of pulp-board cemented and compressed together, jointed to a wooden frame, and surfaced with ven eer,

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and standards and cross-,bers each eomprisspaced and provided with tenons, substan- 1o. ing two of said sections connected together, tially as specified.

substantially as specified. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 6. A structure comprising sections eonsistpresence of two witnesses.

5 i110 of a pulp-board body completely framed m Witth Wood and surfaced with veneer, stand- HEMAN A' BENEDICL ards madeup of two of such sections spaced, Witnesses: as described, to form mortises for tenons, and CLARENCE V. KELLOGG,

cross-bars made up of two of such sections GEO. I. BEACH. 

